late adulthood
- Created by: sammie
- Created on: 01-05-13 15:24
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- LATE ADULTHOOD 60+
- RETIREMENT
- ATCHLEY - pre retirement, honeymoon phase, detatchment phase, reorientation phase, stability phasee, termination phase
- pre- consequences, finacncial and lifestyle changes thought about
- HONEYMOON- enjoys retirement
- DISENCHANTMENT- disapointment, doesnt live up to expectations
- REORIENTATION-develop more realistic aprroach
- STABILITY- takes an orderly routine again
- pre retirement education may help
- TERMINATION-poor health make self care impossible, life changes required
- not evryone goes through them
- how much of a central factor was work? loss of contact and adjustment to being home
- EYSENCK peoples identity is often wrapped up in their jib when they loose their job they loose their identity
- HEPSWORTH distress schores 6 times higher for unemplyed
- ATCHLEY - pre retirement, honeymoon phase, detatchment phase, reorientation phase, stability phasee, termination phase
- SOCIAL DISENGAGEMENT THEORY ******* and Henry
- lots of different reasons why old people become less actively involved in society
- beyond controll such as, retirement, death of friends, poor health, children moving away
- some choose to not have as big social life
- older people become discontected because they occupy fewer roles in society, no longer have jobs, so loose social interaction
- fewer expectations old people
- people choose to disengage to help cope with external and internal pressures
- 5 year study on 50-90 in Kansas city USA foudn people do progressively diseengage from society
- cultral biased, cant be generalised
- HAVIGHURST follow up studied on over half origional study
- those who remained socialy active were most happy
- other cultural studies see people didnt disengage but remained socially active though the church or other organisations
- lots of different reasons why old people become less actively involved in society
- temporal validity, more medicine, higher life expectancy, more suppourt
- moghaddam
- self report data
- yay for longitudinal studies
- RETIREMENT
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